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Calder-Wang, Sophie; Gompers, Paul A.; Huang, Kevin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

diversity (i.e., within the team) as well as vertical diversity (i.e., team to faculty advisor) and their effect on performance … course was run in multiple cohorts in otherwise identical formats except for the team formation mechanism used. In several … exogenous to the gender make-up of the entrepreneurial team, the positive performance effects can be interpreted as causal …

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Fear, Lockdown, and Diversion : Comparing Drivers of Pandemic Economic Decline 2020

Goolsbee, Austan - 2020

The collapse of economic activity in 2020 from COVID-19 has been immense. An important question is how much of that resulted from government restrictions on activity versus people voluntarily choosing to stay home to avoid infection. This paper examines the drivers of the collapse using cellular...

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Diverse Policy Committees Can Reach Underrepresented Groups

D'Acunto, Francesco; Fuster, Andreas; Weber, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Increasing the diversity of policy committees has taken center stage worldwide, but whether and why diverse committees are more effective is still unclear. In a randomized control trial that varies the salience of female and minority representation on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy...

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The Big Three and Board Gender Diversity : The Effectiveness of Shareholder Voice

Gormley, Todd A.; Gupta, Vishal K.; Matsa, David A.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In 2017, "The Big Three" institutional investors launched campaigns to increase gender diversity on corporate boards. We estimate that their campaigns led American corporations to add at least 2.5 times as many female directors in 2019 as they had in 2016. Firms increased diversity by...

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Edmans, Alex; Flammer, Caroline; Glossner, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper measures diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) using proprietary data on survey responses used to compile the Best Companies to Work For list. We identify 13 of the 58 questions as being related to DEI, and aggregate the responses to form our DEI measure. This variable has low...

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